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This outlook ran into trouble with books like William Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring (1855) and Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies (1863), which focused first on fantastical descriptions and characters, and secondarily on offering a lesson.
Alex Palmer: Adults Take the Fun Out of Reading, Again Alex Palmer 2010
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This outlook ran into trouble with books like William Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring (1855) and Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies (1863), which focused first on fantastical descriptions and characters, and secondarily on offering a lesson.
Alex Palmer: Adults Take the Fun Out of Reading, Again Alex Palmer 2010
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William Thackeray's 200th was in 2011, and I don't remember this cavalcade.
Our Dickens Judith Flanders 2012
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The Luck of Barry Lyndon, by William Makepeace Thackeray Thackeray's anti-hero, an 18th-century soldier of fortune, recalls his involvement in the Battle of Minden.
Ten of the best 2011
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Can you name a single character in Thackeray's "Vanity Fair"?
Our Dickens Judith Flanders 2012
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I confess I was puzzled by the title, as I couldn't help but think of Becky Sharp, Thackeray's social-climbing "heroine" in "Vanity Fair."
A Blind Date With 'Vanity Fair' Paul Levy 2011
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The Luck of Barry Lyndon, by William Makepeace Thackeray Thackeray's anti-hero, an 18th-century soldier of fortune, recalls his involvement in the Battle of Minden.
Ten of the best 2011
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Thackeray's Napoleonic magnum opus stages the very same ball.
Ten of the best balls in literature John Mullan 2010
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But in this comedy of bad manners and dysfunctional people, the moral ground and characters start to shift; Becky starts to have more in common than you might think with her almost namesake, Thackeray's social climber Becky Sharp.
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For that, a reader need only go as far as Charles Dickens and his fellow Victorians -- I'd expect Wilkie Collins's two major novels, Dickens works like Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend, and particularly Thackeray's witty and magnificent Vanity Fair would thrill many fantasy readers who love worldbuilding, memorable characters, and (now and then) a bit of melodrama.
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